{"id":28808,"date":"2021-05-13T21:12:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T21:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/?p=28808"},"modified":"2021-05-14T15:56:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T15:56:20","slug":"a-week-of-warmth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/?p=28808","title":{"rendered":"A week of warmth…"},"content":{"rendered":"

goin’ down slow, windy Sunday beginnings<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

ending with remembering the life of a remarkable friend from long long ago through one of those too-frequent-these-days zoom memorials…Robbie Hutchinson, 1942 – 2020.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Come Monday it was back to the ol’ vehicular shuffle in anticipation of Linda’s steel<\/a> delivery<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

which occurred while I was in El Cerrito picking up, now that she’s decided to work exclusively on panels, the last of Eva’s<\/a> stretchers which should be enough to last me, given the current<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

glacial pace [well perhaps given the current climate of climate adaptation “glacial” no longer adequately describes a slow enough process] of my painting for the foreseeable and perhaps,<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

like those 10ply tires, then some.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Low tides, mad winds<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

and Vallejo Tuesday; later<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

the shore, breezy, and<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

the yard, soporifically hot.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

On Cinco de Mayo L’s A-team of Shawn<\/a> and Scott returned for the remainder of the week<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

and despite an unexpectedly dizzying invasion\/interruption that evening which utterly disrupted us [and resulted in the BBQ gas running unattended for two hours and salads sadly<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

forgotten] Monday’s steel began to take shape,<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

so much so that<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

by Friday it had become a Thing, a Thing<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

we dined beside outside.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So unto Sunday, day of Mothers, which among other things entailed<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

an enjoyably lengthy lunch with\u00a0Dana, <\/a>Brian, <\/a>celebratory champagne, <\/a>Linda’s mediterranean lunch and Dana’s Famous Pie*.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Soon afterwards a Facetime call from Vancouver pretty much ended it, for me, anyway.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

*The Famous Pie, originally crafted from Available Supplies on Whidby Island thirty years ago, was so legendary [or deadly] it hadn’t been attempted since until Mother’s Day 2021. It consisted of an exquisite crust enclosing pears, apples, figs in dark rum…yum. In combination with the midday champagne probably a factor in seriously doing me in…<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

goin’ down slow, windy Sunday beginnings ending with remembering the life of a remarkable friend from long long ago through one of those too-frequent-these-days zoom memorials…Robbie Hutchinson, 1942 – 2020. Come Monday it was back to the ol’ vehicular shuffle in anticipation of Linda’s steel delivery which occurred while I was in El Cerrito picking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28808"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28894,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28808\/revisions\/28894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikesmooreptgs.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}